Community First Impressions
The current process followed by WVU Extension Service begins with identifying community champions that make up the community leadership team. Anonymous visitors are then identified to conduct the assessment.
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Topic: Planning 
Planning includes visioning, strategic planning, community and social issues assessment, zoning codes, best practices and success indicators.
Strategic Planning for Cooperative Businesses
Intense planning exercise to help businesses establish a strategy and plan for sustainable growth.
Read More...Rebuilding Communities from the Inside Out
Workshop addresses coordination of physical, economic, and social aspects of development for communities. Specific direction, coordination and projects are established through involving the community in design and development.
Read More...Strategic Planning/Strategic Foresight
Strategic planning is a process for groups, organizations or community leaders to enable them to determine the organization’s purpose, clearly articulate goals, improve the desired outcomes for the organization or community, and to move the community or organization forward, to a collective, desired future.
Read More...First Impressions
The First Impressions Program provides an opportunity for you to discover a first time visitor’s image of your community.
Read More...Extension-Led Economic Development Model-A Recipe for Success
Extension-led economic development organizations, because they are tied to university resources grounded in research and education and without local jurisdictional bias, can build public trust and cooperative partnerships that help to broaden funding support for economic development programming.
Read More...Community Impressions
Community Impressions helps communities learn about their strengths and weaknesses through the eyes of the first-time visitor. The results from a Community Impressions visit might lead to community action immediately and in the future.
Read More...Community Profile: Vision and Action for your Local Community
The Community Profile is a process by which communities take stock of where they are today and develop an action plan for how they want to operate in the future.
Read More...Community Needs Assessment
UNH Cooperative Extension provides assistance to communities and organizations to develop public input processes and strategy for outreach and engagement so to encourage community participation in local decision-making about an issue, policy, problem or project.
Read More...Reinvigorating Local Economies
Since 2000, the Old North St. Louis Restoration Group, University of Missouri Extension and University of Missouri–St. Louis have partnered to develop a set of initiatives that have contributed to creating a healthy, dynamic and sustainable community.
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